The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THREE married sisters. One OF them has a
Jew for a husband, another a Protestant, and
the third a Roman Catholic. They met by APP
pontment at the residence of the latter i'll Madi-
son aveujle, New York, on Easter Sunday night
The Jewess, presiding at the piano, sang the
touching Methodist hymn, shall We know
Each Other There?'
IT is discovered that extract of whale is quite
as good as beef extract and much more
economical A whale weighing 200 tons yields
5000 pounds of extract, and one pound OF eX-
tract makes 100 pipts of soup. Thus one whale
will furnish 500 900 people with dinners, and 100
whales will give all the people in the United
States old enough to eat soup one comfortable
meal apiece.
THE gold fields of South Africa are attracting
a great deal of attention in England, and large
number of younger sons who would otherwise
have entered the church" purely as a matter
of business are rushing to this new Eldorado.
The Sheha quarter ledge in the 1ransVaa was
located last June The town of Barberton near
it has since sprung up and now has nearly
10000 inhabitants.
On the morning of Feb, Is Herman Schutzler,
of Chicago, saw big brown dog worrying his
pet poodle and he ran to drive il away The
dog bit him in the hand. On Saturday, April
, Mr. Schutzler became very restless, on Sun
day there were well developed symptoms of
hydrophobia. and on Monday, after long periods
of barking, frothing at the mouth, and terrible
screaming, he died.
BRAHMIN youths are beset from their birth
with tedious restrictions; the dignity of their
race and their own dignity is a theme which
never tires with their parents Perhaps their
only luxury is that of taking snuff, and in this
even the law lnterfereS and lays down a certain
age when they may begin. To a bachelor this
pleasure is prohibited snuff taking only be-
gin with matrimony.
OTHER people besides Mark Twain can make
collections of the gems of juvenile composition.
The following were gathered by a lady school
teacher of Massachusetts HaZardous-A female
hazard. Femur-rne largest bone i'll the human
body; it is situated in the ear. Spine-A collec-
ton of small bones, extending from the head TO
the feet AShheels-A Greek hero celebrated IN
antiquity probably AchillesO
The late Charles Delmonico was very strict in
his rules regarding the walters Once an order
was given by liberal and frequent customer
that infrnged on one of the rules. and the waiter
reported the matter to Mr. Dclmonico, who went
himself to the customer and said: This IS
against the rules, but / make the rules, and |
can violate them while | cannot allow a waiter
TO do So" and he attended personally to the Or
der.
A CANADIAN FARMER near Luther was awaken
ed by persons proving around his house. He
and his sons arose and fired sholguns at man
they saw He ran and was joined by two men
in a sleigh. One of the horses htched to the
sleigh cast a shoe. The farmer picked ii up, and
by the aid of the blacksmith who made it iden-
tilted the providers, who proved to be neighbors,
and who paid good sum to keep the thing
quiet.
WooD OIL is made on Il large scale in Sweden
from the refuse of timber cuttings and forest
clearings, and from stumps and roots; and al
though it cannot well be burned in common
lamps on account of the heavy proportion of
carbon it contains, it furnishes a satisfactory
light in lamps made for it, and in its natural
state is said TO he the cheapest of Illuminating
oils Thirty factories produce about 40 COO litras
of the oil daily; tupentine creosote, acetic acid,
charcoal coal tar oils and other useful sub
stances are also obtained from the same mate
rails.
Two curious pictures are now amusing the
Germans. The first is where is the Peacemak-
err" 1t shows the conventional figures of
Russian an Englishnan Frenchman and
Chinaman. When the picture is folded these
four figures are merged into one-that of Prince
Bismarck. The same result IS attained IN the
second picture, representing Gen. BOulanger, NJ.
Paul Deroulede Herr Richter and Herr Wind
thOrst. Folded together they also exhibit the
Imperial Chancellor. The Berliners appear to
have been greatly amused by these two pic
lures.
THE infractious 4-year-old son of substantial
looking dame would not walk along by her side,
but evinced en- inclination to cry and sit down
ON the sidewalk on the corner of Fifth avenue
| and Twenty-third street New York. crowd.
| of course. gathered. A man looking for a pin
on the sidewalk will attract around him crowd
| the moment a second person stops. The ener-
| getic mother referred to promptly dispersed the
| inquisitve crowd by spanking the rebelliOus
| yollngster into submission, and he walked away
| sulkily by her side, while several of the on
| lockers actually cheered. A curious scene on
| one of the most crowded thoroughfares of the
| world!
Count ANDRAssY the Hungarian statesman.
is noted as much for his cleverness at repartee
as for his eccentricity. Il am very dull to-day"
ho Of
Buda- Pesth; Count X. has been here and we
| have exchanged ideas" At the State Depart
| ment it was always his busy day when the
foreign ambassadors called to hold long palaverS.
| One day the British envoy took offenSe at what
| he chose to consider his discOurtesy in refusing
| to see him when he was dressing" and at their
next meeting drew his attention to the fact that
| he did not call at the State Department Lord
! X but as the representative of the Queen of
| Great Britain. 'All the more. - was the Counts
| deprecatng reply, consider the improperly of
| my receiving the representative of the Queen in
| my night-shirt." The proposition did not ad-
| NIT of argument
MURRAY's English dictionary thus defines
one of the best known of recent additions to
| the language Boycott, V. If. the name of Capt
| Boycott, an Irish landlord who was the original
| victim of the treatment described Trans. To
| combine i'll refusing to hold relations of any
| kind, social or commercial, public or private,
with Ia neighbour on account of political or other
differences, so as TO punish him for the position
| he has taken up or cOerce him into abandoning
| it. The word arose in the autumn of 1880 to de-
| scribe the action instituted by the Irish Land
| League toward those who incurred its hostility
| IL was speedily adopted by the newspapers in
! nearly every European language c. G.. Fl, boy
| cotter Du., boycOtten; Ger. boycottiren; Russ.
| bOikOtirovat, etc. Now 1850 generally written
| without an initial capital letter Dr. Murray is
| in error point at least. Capt. Boycott
| was not an Irish landlord. but an Englishman
| and agent for Lord Earne.
! DURING the past year 1869, lwenty-three
vessels were added TO the British navy Of an ag-
! gregate tonnage of sc, 2GO, while the number to
| be completed in the coming year is given in the
| navy estimates as twenty-five, giving total in
! two years of forty-eght ships, or an aggregate
| tonnage of 146 $50 tons. In addition to these
| the British Admiralty programme for vessels to
| be begun in the financial year Just opened
| april. 1881 TO March, 1885, includes two TWEEN
| ty-knot steelbottomed protected cruisers at
| Chatham; three 1891 knot copper bottomed
| protected cruisers, two byl contract and one
| at Portsmouth,; the composite sloop Buz-
| card; six composite gunboats Improved Rat
| tiers, and one vessel % the Grasshopper class
! total thirteen vessels OF the Rttlers, II need
! merely hc said that they differ from the Rather
! herself only IN having poop, being about one
! foot broader and Of about forty tons greater
| displacement. The steam trials Of the Rather
| and Wasp cannot be said TO have been very
| satisfactory, speeds Of only 1917 to 1891 KNOBS
having been attained The new Buzzards are
| repeats OF the Buzzard now building at Sheer